Our LEAD scheme will provide you with a clear home energy plan - showing you how to make improvements to your home to reduce energy use and make your house more comfortable to live in.
Where is the LEAD scheme available?
The scheme is currently being delivered to certain neighbourhoods within North Yorkshire:
- Great Ayton
- Greatwood, Skipton
- Harrogate including:
- Harlow and St Georges
- Oatlands and Pannal
- The Stray, Woodlands and Hookstone
- Stokesley and villages, including:
- East Harlsey
- East Rounton
- Great and Little Broughton
- Hutton Rudby
- Ingleby Arncliffe
- Ingleby Greenhow
- Kirkby
- Middle-on-leven
- Sexhow
- Seamer
- Skutterskelfe
- Pickering
- Potto
- West Selby
What will the home energy plan include?
Households in these areas will be offered a home survey and a free home energy plan which will include:
- an insight into the energy efficiency and condition of your home, including the existing ventilation
- a discussion of your priorities around home retrofitting
- specialised software to calculate how to make the most effective changes which will result in savings for you
- estimated installation costs and ways you can improve your EPC rating
- estimated energy saving
- information on the different technologies available to make your home more energy efficient such as solar panels, cavity wall insulation, loft insulation, low carbon heating and low energy lightbulbs
- retrofit design specifications (where applicable)
As part of the survey, a Retrofit Co-ordinator will identify your home retrofit priorities and advise on how you can progress your home energy plan further if you wish to.
The plan will provide you with information that will enable you to choose the most cost-effective way to make the necessary improvements outlined in your plan. You may be eligible for further funding to help you pay for retrofitting; the retrofit assessor will discuss these with you.
Who can benefit from the LEAD scheme?
To benefit from this scheme, you must:
- live in one of the neighbourhoods listed above
- be a homeowner, private tenant, landlord or a shared owner of your property
- have a property with four bedrooms or less
- have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) of D or below
If you are not eligible for this scheme, do not worry, as you could be eligible for another scheme. Our website has more information about the different energy schemes available.
Register your interest
Great Ayton/Stokesley area
We have had a great amount of interest in our scheme around Great Ayton, Stokesley and the surrounding village areas. Due to limited funding we have now reached capacity in these areas. If you have already registered your interest our team will be in touch soon with further updates.
To keep up to date on future schemes, please visit our energy efficiency advice page.
Other areas
Use our online form to check your eligibility and apply for a home energy plan. Please note this scheme has limited availability within each area.
Register your interest in a home energy plan
What to expect at your property assessment
After completing the online form, you will receive a pre-assessment questionnaire from Align Property Partners. This will help the assessors better understand your home to produce an accurate and efficient assessment. Upon completing the questionnaire, an assessor will contact you to discuss your application and schedule an appointment for a property assessment. The assessment will take place during business hours between Monday and Friday.
Our project partners
This scheme is delivered in partnership with Align Property Partners, Climate Action Stokesley and Villages, Zero Carbon Harrogate, the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority and Net Zero’s North East and Yorkshire Hub.
This project is funded by Tees Valley Combined Authority and the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Further information
For further details about the scheme please contact us.